#echoes of the eye and spring in hieron are LITERALLY THE SAME SONG THEY ARE THE SAME SONG

[planet4546b]

it drives me up the wall bonkers that the spring in hieron and the outer wilds soundtrack are, in every way that matters, the exact same. semi-diagetic music that represents the world itself (the guitar as samol in sih, the traveler's instruments making up the track that plays in space which is literally universal background radiation), where instead of leitmotifs specifc instrumentation is used to represent different themes/parts of the world. both stories about being about the world as we know it violently and terribly ending, about everyone having to come to terms with that, and the music reflecting that as instrumentations and motifs change on you. but the same familiar songs always come back around, too. the clarinets slowly overtaking the guitar in the song spring in hieron. morning being the timber hearth theme but on strings. the music is sooooo so so intrinsically a part of the world and it changes with it...the sound of the pedals in each and every one of us. esker's whistling starting the travelers. when the clarinet plays the main theme instead of the piano in spring in hieron. when the main theme is replayed with the instrumentation unique to the strangers in the song echoes of the eye. i need to tear something apart with my teeth.

[planet4546b]

comprehensive list of outer wilds music moments that make me lose it:

all of timber hearth. (the greater complexity in the tune + playing than riebecks tune on his banjo, the way it kicks in just as the sun rises)

the museum starting with the last phrase of the theme and then repeating different phrases out of order and loosely

the piano in the far far background in space. space as a whole. i literally think this song is universal background radiation in this world im not kidding.

sun station and ash twin project ONLY having the nomai’s synths, not their piano

nomai ruins having hints of the theme that plays while time rewinds, the halting and uncertain piano that continues to echo itself in other keys...

FINAL. VOYAGE.

let there be light and 14.3 billion years. starting with. the nomais piano. and the way it slowly eases into completely new instruments (spring in hieron soundtrack moment)

let there be light and morning using instruments weve NEVER heard before. morning is so good its unreal the CELLO.

the VOCALS in the river my god!!!!! unreal experience hearing that for the first time!!! the complex guitar in the river that is the closest thing we have to timber hearth!!!!

a dream of home starting with (what sounds like to me) the normal guitar theme REVERSED. before easing into the synths that just completely collapse into the core theme of the strangers.

the hope and joy in test chamber three..........the comfort and quiet of the sound of water.....moments of peace and kindess on the stranger despite everything else.....the strangers are people too and theyre just as sympathetic as the nomai.....

the distortion in echoes of the eyes whole soundtrack.....the static.....

echoes of the eye (the song) playing with key/phrasing/instrumentation of the main theme - its your theme but its interpreted through someone else’s eyes!! and then ADDING little riffs on phrases and new phrases but the core is still recognizable.....and then it ENDS resolving into something more recognizable and familiar with feldspars harmonica no less.....favorite song on the soundtrack ngl

DEPARTURE.....same as above its someone trying to translate your theme into the musical language familiar to them and its so good. its about common understanding. its about the prisoner repeating the song you sang back to you. AUGH.